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Publication Date: February 2009
Publisher: Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
Author(s): Jonathan Fighel
Research Area: International relations
Keywords: hamas; radical Islam; global terrorism; saudi arabia
Type: Report
Coverage: Saudi Arabia
Abstract:
The Mumbai attacks have been linked to Lashkar-e-Taiba and radical Islamic groups in Kashmir generally. Yet it would be a mistake to see Lashkar only as a local organization with only a local agenda.
Saudi Arabia has contributed very much to what Lashkar-e-Taiba looks like, how it thinks, its motivation, ideology, and funding. Saudi Arabia presents itself as the protector and the spearhead of the defense of Muslims around the world against what they define as the Western cultural attack.